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Some reporters tried to ask this foreign born former A list mostly movie actress some questions on a red carpet this week but were unable to understand a word she said. She was talking so softly and mumbling every word and what they could hear and understand had nothing to do with the question they asked. She acted like a zombie.

Exactly! Since when is it fun and games to pick on others with mental illness? That's as wrong as picking on people with a different sexual preference. Wrong is wrong! And it's wrong to delight in the pain of others.

+1,000,000! She's not "nuts", as one poster said; she's battling a serious mental illness while in the public eye. I don't care what her issues are as a human being – she has my compassion for battling the bipolar illness, one that's particularly tricky to medicate. Can't help being married to Douglas, either, although she knew what she was getting into. I see her as being kind of superficial and materialistic, which probably makes it more difficult on her ego to have to admit to the illness and the marriage difficulties publicly.

I think she has other issues in addition to mental illness. Sad. But I'm not going to be upset that this is gossiped about. She needs to go get well instead of walking the red carpet. Some celebrities manage to keep their problems private and if you go out acting the fool, people will know about it.

Meh. I have a soft voice, excellent hearing, and loud roomies. They can barely hear me half the time and their voices are like gongs. I can imagine being overwhelmed on a red carpet with everyone shouting at you at once.

Also, any medication taken for mental health issues can have a zombifying side effect. So if she doesn't take meds, she's a nut job who neglects her kids, but if she does take them, she's a mumbling zombie. Girlfriend can't win.

@Me2 – I'll have to read that article! I strongly believe in a holistic mind/body/spirit connection, and there can definitely be treatments for mood disorders that aren't pharmaceutical at all. Often doctors and others in the mental health field say that "if you're bipolar, you will ALWAYS be on meds." Well, I had a HORRIFIC few months this year on lithium/lamictal, and I am currently on 5-HTP and megadoses of fish oil and I feel a million times better and pretty much like myself again. No joke. I also picked up ashwagandha yesterday as per Dr. Weil, so we'll see if that makes a difference, too.

(Caveat: by no means am I some quack social worker who says "toss yer meds!" I have just found that these supplements, along with music/sunlight/walking/meditation/deep breathing/etc., have made a tremendous difference for ME.)

@Krissie – I'm not really trying to WK for her or any of us who are bipolar, but sometimes when we appear to be horrible people doing horrible things, we honestly and truly can't help it. We have to take responsibility for it and make amends, by all means, but sometimes it's out of our control and we're horrified and ashamed afterwards. (It's usually those we love the most that we hurt.) So maybe it's possible that her being "horrible" was a bad bipolar trip; what did she do exactly?

@Sevenofeleven – What you said +10000. Damned if we do, damned if we don't! We CAN find the magic treatment sometimes, but it's kind of rare and we're always going to struggle with recovery anyway. :-/

Look i think she has serious MI issues, and I think she is trying to keep her life as normal as possible by doing usual activities. So i guess sometimes shes gonna be a little off; i respect her for getting up everyday and putting one foot in front of the other. I bumped into a woman at the Y the ither day who used ti be in class i was in. Well she started talking to me, about health issues, and heavy meds she was on, i tried to be as polite as i cld but really, she was out there. So cld happen to anyone, just pleasant and carry on.

@AKM, she used to be known for constant lawsuits. Probably the most notorious one came when she sold her wedding photos to a magazine for a million dollars. She then sued the magazine because she decided she looked "fat" in her wedding photo. I don't care if she had mental issues then, that was not the fault of all the people she dragged into lawsuits. (And i say that as someone who has mental issues too.)

You know, she's one of the few, I don't particularly like, comes across as smug and up her own bum, but I do think those around her and those that love her, should care enough not to put her on the red carpet when she is that put of it, they knew, and they let it happen…that's off. Very off.

I hate when people bang on anyone with mental illness! As a person who has battled bipolar and severe depression, I can attest to the tremendous varying side effects of medications that are used to help us battle this illness. It sucks monster balls. I wish Zeta Jones good luck in her recovery. Having the world watch, comment and ridicule you over mumbling, dead eyes, monotone speech, involuntary tremors/tics, etc. is horrific. I wish mental illness wasn't seen as and treated like a side show circus.

@M Safavi: The world was watching because she was on a red carpet for the world to see her. Just like Brit Brit, if she stayed out of the public's eye, there would be very little to corroborate the rumors.

@AKM, yeah, her sue-happy phase was while back so it's not surprising if people don't know about it. She seems to have cooled it on the lawsuits in the last few years. I wonder if Michael Douglas finally said to her, "We've got to stop this." Maybe he realized what bad press they were getting.

Tidbit: during one suit CZJ announced that a million dollars wasn't much money to her. Some school kids in the UK wrote her a letter that said, "Mrs. Zeta-Jones, if a million dollars is not much to you, would you please consider donating a million dollars to charity?" Awesome kids!!

This BI is kind of cruel, because is very well known that she has Bipolar issues and that last year she had very bad crisis for almost the whole year and for her being okay and able to be with her family she most take a lot of meds that had many second effects

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